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antiquarian interest, concerning which further information is desirable. 
7. “That a copy of the proceedings be forwarded to the Secretary 
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, with an intimation that it is the 
desire of this Provincial Committee to co-operate with the Asiatic 
Society in the manner above indicated, or in any other way by which 
the objects of the above Socety may be promoted, and that they will 
feel obliged by the Society’s guidance in the matter.” 
FRoM THE SECRETARY TO THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
To T. H. THornton, Esq., 
Secy. to the Provincial Committee, Lahore, 
Asiatic Society’s Rooms, Calcutta, 9th March, 1863. 
Srr,—Your letter, dated January 1863, with its enclosures, having 
been taken into consideration by the Council of the Asiatic Society, 
I am directed to express the great gratification with which they have 
received the announcement of the influential movement at Lahore 
in furtherance of the objects to which the operations of this Society 
have always been directed. ‘The Council feel that concentrated local 
efforts, to promote these objects, cannot fail to be of great advantage 
as well to the Society itself as to the general interests of literature 
and science, and they believe that such efforts will be especially valu- 
able in the Punjab, where the field of enquiry is of more than 
ordinary interest, and gives promise of a rich and abundant harvest, 
They, therefore, desire me to respond most cordially to the offer of 
co-operation which has been made to them by the Lahore Committee, 
and to intimate that they are prepared to assist in carrying out the 
objects proposed to the utmost extent of the means at their disposal. 
But before suggesting any definite arrangements for mutual assis- 
tance, the Council desire to be informed what are the precise wishes 
and intentions of your Committee as to its own constitution and the 
publication of its proceedings and researches ; whether it is proposed 
that the Committee should be constituted as a separate body corres- 
ponding with, but independent of, this Society, and publishing its own 
records, or whether its object is rather to work as a Local Committee 
of this Society, contributing its papers for publication in the Society’s 
Journal. 
The Council would gather from your letter and from the resolu- 
tions of the Committee that the latter course is the one contemplat- 
